July 2008
1 post
“Computer games didn’t affect kids. I mean, if pacman affected us as kids,...”
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ConsumeHastaMorir, Documental Gran Superficie:... →
Vídeo documental sobre el papel de la publicidad en el sistema actual de sobreproducción y sobreconsumo. A través de entrevistas y varios ejemplos de intromisión publicitaria se analizan temáticas como la alimentación, los medios de comunicación o la educación.
Estética supositorio →
El economista italiano Giovanni Cutolo tiene la teoría de que vivimos la apoteosis de la estética supositorio en la arquitectura y el diseño. Pero en general en nuestra vida consumista, donde no hacen más que generarse formas nuevas, pero sin sustancia innovadora (…)
June 2007
20 posts
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2esk5_fox-news_ne... →
Desnudos por el arte →
Un artista consigue que 50 personas se quiten la ropa y se pinten unos a otros en un teatro para una ‘performance’ (El Pais)
Workaholics →
HEY, all you work addicts out there, get a life. (New York Times)
El Juego de la Paella!! →
Learn to prepare a true Spanish PAELLA with this “game”
WatchAmazing SIX-Year-Old Singer Video
International Trepanation Advocacy Group - ITAG →
Please, someone tell me this is not serious, because it looks like it is …. ”ITAG’s mission is to compile every bit of information about trepanation and its benefits brought such enthusiastic welcome from people who wanted to be trepanned that we went looking for some doctors willing to provide the surgery in a First-Class medical clinic. In August of 2000, we struck gold. The...
Prisons of the world
Check out some of these prisons, over these lines a prison in Austria looking like an office building -actually better- (link) -via (boing boing)
A visit of Rungis, the world's biggest food market →
Louisiana town banning saggy pants →
In Spain some people are complaining about having -serious- traffic violations punished with jail terms. Thanks God, we’re still nowhere close to the United States and their how-to-wear-your-pants policy
Seen from four billion miles away, Earth is a dot suspended in a beam of sunlight “ We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you’ve ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys...
Living in the Moment →
For over fifty years Henry has lived with anterograde amnesia, a form of profound memory loss which prevents new events from reaching his long-term memory. As a result his only memories are those he possessed prior to his amnesia, and the small window of moments immediately preceding the present. (link)
DARPA plans to turn moths into cyberspies →
In a project that seems like it was hatched from the brain of a science fiction writer, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is growing computer chips around insects for use in surveillance (via ZDNet)
Spare any change? Canada unveils $1 million coin →
The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a welcome addition to any piggy bank on Thursday — a monster gold coin with a face value of C$1 million (700.000 euros) that it says is the world’s biggest, purest and highest denomination coin. (via Reuters)
Man wakes from 19-year coma in democratic country →
A 65-year-old railwayman who fell into a coma following an accident in communist Poland regained consciousness 19 years later to find democracy and a market economy
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May 2007
46 posts
The truth behind your mouse cursor →
click to find out … (link)
Telmo trotando por Nueva Zelanda
Mi colega el telmo, que no se le ocurre nada mejor que hacer que coger sus ahorros e irse a Nueva Zelanda a dar vueltas, que envidia! que fuente de inspiración! en su blog puedes seguir sus aventuras y ver algunas de sus fotos suerte! iatz
The Transparent Man →
Elahi’s latest project puts his most private information online, revealing his real-time location, his bank statements and even photographs of his food. The only thing missing is a self-portrait: The site shows no photos of his face. (via forbes.com)
“Before you can change the world you must realize you yourself are just a part of...”
– The Dreamers, Bernardo Bertolucci
Prison restaurant that'll make you a pasta you... →
Under the watchful eye of armed prison warders, a 20-strong team of chefs, kitchen hands and waiters prepares 120 covers for diners who have all undergone strict security checks. Tables are booked up weeks in advance.
The Budget Traveller's Guide to Sleeping in... →
Un país castizo y cañí →
La televisión, siempre sumisa a los deseos de sus televidentes, no sólo se ha convertido en el principal suministrador de opio del pueblo. También es un espejo de deslumbrante precisión. ¿Viendo la televisión podemos hacernos una idea de cómo es nuestra sociedad? ¿Sí? Maldición… (link)
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m...”
– - Albert Einstein
“Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement”
– seen in needlesports.com
Are you an Internet addict?
Internet addiction can be defined as an impulse-control disorder which does not involve an intoxicant. Young (1996) developed a brief eight-item questionnaire to provide a screening instrument for addictive Internet use: Do you feel preoccupied with the Internet (think about previous on-line activity or anticipate next on-line session)? Do you feel the need to use the Internet with ...
SQL Injection Cheat Sheet →
WatchSpeed warning advert - Attention, explicit images
“Being a good worker is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the...”
– adapted from cfarivar.org
